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Web Design in a Nutshell
SEBASTOPOL, CA--O'Reilly's newest release in the well-regarded
"Nutshell" Series,
Web Design in a
Nutshell, contains the nitty-gritty
on everything you need to know to design Web pages. In the
Nutshell series tradition,
Web Design in a
Nutshell is written
and organized so that answers can be found quickly-no fluff,
no padding. Written by veteran Web designer Jennifer Niederst
(of GNN and Web Review fame), this book provides quick access
to the wide range of front-end technologies and techniques from
which Web designers and authors must draw.

Web Design in a
Nutshell is an excellent reference for HTML
4.0 tags (including tables, frames, and Cascading Style Sheets)
with special attention given to browser support and platform
idiosyncrasies. The HTML section is more than a reference work,
though. It details strange behavior in tables, for instance, and
gives ideas and workarounds for using tables and frames on your
site. Web Design in a Nutshell also covers multimedia and
interactivity, audio and video (including Flash and Shockwave),
Cascading Style Sheets, and emerging technologies like Dynamic
HTML, XML, embedded fonts, and internationalization. There are
chapters on creating GIF, JPEG and PNG graphics, including designing
with the Web Palette.

"In the beginning, the Web was simple. It isn't so easy anymore.
With the explosion of the Web came an avalanche of new technologies,
proprietary tags, and acronyms. Even for someone who is immersed
in the terminology and environment on a professional basis, it can
be truly overwhelming. You just can't keep this stuff in your head
anymore," says author Jennifer Niederst in the preface. "I often
wished there was one place to go to find quick answers to my
questions. That's why I wrote this book. It has the useful parts
without a lot of fluff, organized so that information can be found
quickly. It's based on the wish-lists-and indeed, the contributions
-- of both professional and hobbyist web designers."

About the Author

Jennifer Niederst was one of the first Web designers. As the designer
of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial
Web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. Since then,
she has been working almost exclusively on the Web, first as
creative director of Songline
Studios (a subsidiary of O'Reilly)
where she designed the original interface for
WebReview, and as a
freelance designer and consultant
since 1996. She is the author of
Designing for the
Web (O'Reilly, 1996),
and has taught Web design at the Massachusetts College of Art and
the Interactive Factory in Boston, MA. She has spoken at major design
and Internet events including the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway),
Seybold Seminars, and the W3C International Expo.

About O'Reilly

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